Riversdale Fine Wines
Australia
Brands
Lakefield Estate， Cape d’Estaing
Winery Overview
Headquartered in Melbourne, Riversdale Fine Wines (RFW) is an omni-channel fine wine expert specialising on premium wine brands from wine regions throughout Australia, including well-known and hidden treasure regions. Their offices in Melbourne, Adelaide, Shanghai and Guangzhou, give them first hand and latest market intelligence on the ground, directly from suppliers and consumers and also enable them to provide top quality trading and integrated logistics service.
RFW has made promoting premium Australian wine their mission since inception. They strive to provide the most comprehensive and brand orientated marketing and education strategy for brands both small and large, covering online and offline channels. Their RFW Club has been providing educational experience and tailored service to consumers through events in various formats. They have been trade specialist in Australian wine for multiple years and were among the first to provide education programs using Wine Australia Australian Wine Discovered materials. They have also delivered Barossa Wine school courses and Rutherglen fortified Master Classes to consumers in Australia and China.
They have built a close relationship with government, university partners, top influencers and KOLs in the industry to promote premium Australian wines. In 2017, Riversdale Fine Wine was awarded as the Best Wine Importer of the Year by RVF China and Best Boutique Importer by Wine100 in the following year, 2019 and grow into Best Mid-Size Importer in 2020. In 2019 RFW was rewarded as the best off-line promotion company by Wine Australia China Wine Award.
Available in
China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Taiwan
Seeking Distribution in
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Winemaker Bio
Mike Farmilo is winemaking graduate of world renowned Roseworthy College in South Australia he began his winemaking career at Angoves Winery.
During this time he was involved in both laboratory and winemaking, including spirits and fortified wines. Mike then spent 13 years at Southcorp Wine Group where he had a long involvement with Seaview, Penfolds, Wynn’s Coonawarra, Lindemans, Seppelts, Coldstream Hills, Tollana and many others, the last 6 years as Group Red Winemaker, overseeing the production and styles of Southcorp’s massive red wine portfolio across Australia, France and California.
His wine credits include winning two Jimmy Watson Trophies, making Penfolds Grange, St Henri, Bin 707, Bin 389, Dorrien Cabernet, Lindemans St George and much more. Mike left Southcorp to pursue his own venture and to help establish Boar’s Rock Winery in McLaren Vale, South Australia in 1997. He was a founding shareholder and Principal Winemaker with Boar’s Rock, a contract processing, winemaking and storage facility that expanded and operated wineries in McLaren Vale (South Australia), Margaret River (Western Australia) and Riverland (South Australia). Mike has always been involved in the Australian Wine Show system, judging at the Melbourne, Rutherglen, McLaren Vale, Barossa, Clare, Langhorne Creek and Riverland Wine Shows over the years.
He is currently Chairman of Judges at the Australian Small Winemakers Wine Show, and Deputy Chair of the Adelaide Wine Show Committee. Through his long experience in the Wine Industry and in particular in the South Australian Regions, Mike has a great knowledge of wine and is particularly enthusiastic about the great wines that come out of McLaren Vale.